After all of the "Richard is so nice...", "Richard is the god of flood ordinances", and so on, I think that our lawyer figured that we didn't have a chance to convince the board of supervisors that Richard might be wrong. And I think that he thought that any reasonable person would be able to work with us to find a good solution. So the lawyer had high hopes of a good outcome from this morning's meeting.
My goal was to give Richard the opportunity to review the documents that show that we exceed the requirements he said we are in violation of. That way, when we went before the supervisors, he wouldn't be able to say that he had never seen the documents.
Wanna guess how the meeting went? David and I weren't the least surprised when, after reading the new documents, Richard stated, "I don't care what this document says. I have to follow what's written in the Harrison County Flood Plain Ordinance". And once the lawyer pointed out that we met the ordinance, on the basis of having a PE stamped drawing (either have a stamped drawing or meet these other requirements), Richard was out of sound arguments. So he resorted to "I told you the citation" and started yelling about how we (David and I) were granted a permit based on a house raised on pilings and that we were building to unapproved drawings. The lawyer pointed out that we had submitted the revised drawings but that the code office had failed to review them. Things went downhill fast - the lawyer got frustrated, Richard got defensive, and ultimately we were kicked out.
So, another $10K in lawyer fees for the couple of weeks, and we will go before the Board of Supervisors on August 6th.
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This sucks big time guys!! We'll be praying that ya'll prevail and the bureaucrats are made fools of. My desktop crashed and ate your e-mail address so drop me a message when you hear the new. Just know we're thinking about ya'll and praying for you.
Trish and Andy
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